EXCLUSIVE: Indian doctors have saved the life of a 21-year-old man who fell off an under construction building and got himself impaled on iron rods that pierced though his chest that miraculously missed his heart but puncturing the liver. The incident happened on January 12 around 7pm when Rajendra Pal, a construction worker from West Bengal, slipped and fell off the roof of a building at a construction site in Nariman Point, Mumbai. Fortunately, Pal did not suffer any fatal injuries as the rods did not puncture most of his vital organs. Hearing the loud thud and the cries of Pal, his fellow workers rushed to the spot. They soon informed the police and fire brigade about the accident. The rescue time arrived at short notice, cut the rods off the pillar and managed to rush him to the state-run GT hospital. According to the hospital authorities, the rods had caused penetrating trauma to chest and abdomen, patient was rescued by fire brigade after cutting the 12mm construction iron rods. Dr Jitendra Sankpal, senior surgeon at GT hospital, said: "The patient was conscious when he was brought to the hospital. Two 5-ft-long iron rods pierced his abdomen and chest. However, the man was lucky as the rods did not puncture his lungs or other vital organs. When the patient was brought in, his condition was critical. On inspection, we discovered there were two 12mm iron rods, each 75cm long had penetrated through his chest and upper abdomen. According to the doctors, the first one had entered from right anterior axillary line subcutaneously to the upper side of left chest. Clothes were stuck inside the entry point of rod. The second rod had penetrated from right posterior axillary line through seventh intercostal space to epigastric region. “It was a very difficult operation. The first rod that came out though his chest barely missed the patient’s heart by 1 inch. We started the operation at 10pm and concluded it at 1am. The patient’s vitals are normal and he is out of da